First Raise a Flag. How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace, Paperback - Peter Martell

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Reducere. A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruc...

Reducere. Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, traditional American foreign policy has proven inadequate to 21st Ce...

Reducere. Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, traditional American foreign policy has proven inadequate to 21st Ce...

Reducere. Jay Sarno built two path-breaking Las Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace (1966) and Circus Circus (1968), and planned but did not build a third, the Gra...

DescriptionMany stories have been told about the famous Lost Boys, but now for the first time, a Lost Girl shares her hauntingly beautiful and insp...

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..

Reducere. Ten years have passed since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last US combat troops left Iraq-...

Reducere. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ** A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year Rust has been called "the great destroyer, " the "perv...

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom, " Heather Cox Richardson argues in this ...

Bartlett goes beyond Rorke's Drift to tell the largely forgotten story of how the Anglo-Zulu war was really won and lost.Publisher: Amberley Publis...

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The Fix: How the First Champions League Was Won and Why We All Lost is an engrossing examination of the 1992/93 UEFA Champions League - from humble...

The never-before-told tale of the German-American who infiltrated New York's Nazi underground in the days leading up to World War II: "Thrilling, w...

Reducere. American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlef...

Reducere. Recalls the group of scientists whose invention of radar during World War II contributed to the Allied victory, and chronicles their post-war achie...

Reducere. More than 60, 000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was wo...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Nigel CawthorneIllustration(s): PaperbackNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 2...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sonja (African Leadership Centre, King's College London, UK) TheronNumber of pages: 216Collection: P...

Reducere. Africa's newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence o...

In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer, was shot down over Manchuria. He was captured by the Chinese and held for the ...

Reducere. DescriptionAn epic story of one man's devotion to the American cause In October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold's treasonous attempt to han...

A full and frank history of an enduringly bitter relationship, covering the years 2001-2014, set against the background of Islamist militancy in Pa...

Reducere. The First Toast is to Peace: Travels in the South Caucasus brings alive a captivating part of the globe that the English-speaking world has been sl...

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Reducere. Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah...

The railways mobilised troops, transported munitions, evacuated children from cities and kept vital food supplies moving where other forms of trans...

Publisher: Ronsdale PressAuthor(s): Doris GregoryIllustration(s): 40 b/w photosNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 230 x 154 x 14...

With exclusive interviews, a Signal Corps veteran tells the full story of how cryptography helped defeat the Axis powers, at Bletchley Park and bey...

Reducere. Great cyclists are born, but winning cyclists are made by the brains of their managers. The craft of racing requires a non-stop obsession with deta...

Reducere. "How They Won the War in the Pacific" provides a fascinating look at Naval Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and his subordinate leaders--fighting men unde...

The causes of war - why people fight - is one of the big questions of human existence. Azar Gat's book, ranging from the beginning of prehistory to...